NEWS 2020/05/29
Now just over two decades in, Avenged Sevenfold have enjoyed the sort of career that doesn’t seem to come around in heavy music much anymore. By transitioning from the rough-hewn but unapologetically indulgent metalcore of 2001’s Sounding The Seventh Trumpet through a series of genre-redefining classics that ruled the 2000s, the steely Californians set themselves as a band apart. In building further to the stadium-crushing might of 2013’s Hail To The King – then spiralling off down a gob-smacking prog-metal wormhole with 2016’s The Stage – they revolutionised their scene and raised the game to another level entirely. Whether grasping unlikely triumphs (alongside Audioslave, My Chemical Romance and Biffy Clyro, A7X are one of only four Download headliners whose debut LP dropped after t...
Nightmare
2010 release, the fifth album from the Alt-Metal outfit, produced by Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Eminem) and mixed by noted engineer Andy Wallace. The album is the first from the band without drummer James the Rev Sullivan, who passed away in December. Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy plays drums on the album. Over the years, Avenged Sevenfold has built a fanatical fan base that includes more than one million fans on Facebook. They have also attracted 93 million plays on MySpace.